HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Unique visits counter

    Views counter is incremented every time i click refresh.Could be better if we had an additional counter to have the number of unique views.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Hashtags in Comments

    In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Help button in the left navigation bar of Connections to open the topic of where the user is currently at

    Requesting OM to consider changing how the Help button found on the left navigation works on Connections 8. When the Help button is clicked it should open a pop-up information about the current application where the user is at.
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Improvement of Daily or weekly newsletter

    n the daily/weekly newsletter that I receive, there is no direct link to the comments that I see listed. I can go to the forum or topic, but not directly to that post. This makes it harder for me to engage with that specific post (like/comment).
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Notification when someone attends your Event

    When I create an Event in ConNext, I would like the possibility to be notified when someone register (click on "Will Attend") to it. Even if I follow this event, I don't get such notifications.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Editor(s) - Convert pasted Notes-Links into real Notes-Links (Notes://)

    In case you past a valid Notes Link (document, view, application, anchor) into the editor in IBM Connections the result looks like this (example is a view link, al private date is replaced by "x"): xxxx xxxxxxxxxx <NDL> <REPLICA xxxxxxxx...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Please release a legal Connections Container so that customer can quickly deploy this product

    Since PINK is supposed to be container based and container does not have any OS, there should not be anything legal preventing bundling a ready for deployment Connection Container, right ? This should in theory help to immensely cut down deploymen...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement
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